Marriage in Another Country

[doodlebug 3]

You Can easily marry in Egypt , The Problem is The US Embassy doesnt give the affidivat that show that the embassy doesnot object the marriage , so You Can easily go through your marriage by a lawyer and then you will be able to authorized your marriage in the Court house by a lwayer too , Marriage in Egypt is available , The Egyptian Laws allow marriage of forigeners in Egypt . don`t worry it`s okay ..

Why wouldn't the US Embassy provide a letter stating the American citizen is free to marry?

My husband and I married in a third country. I just needed to provide a certified copy (certified by the Courthouse where my divorce occured) that I was single and free to marry. The US Embassy gave it to me after waiting a few hours.

It's a new stipulation that Egypt started a few months ago that they will not accept the US Embassy's letter stating that one is free to marry. No one knows why they have done this but many speculate that it's due to the high volume of fraudulent marriages to US Citizens...............which makes no sense to me since they can just as easily get a K-1 visa and get married in the US.

Maby it's to make everyone apply for the K-1 visa before marriage. If it's a marriage of convenience would you really go through all this hell without being married? Gives you time to think about it and puts a strain on your relationship before the marriage and you really have to have a commitment to eachother before the commitment of marriage. Getting a K-1 is not exactly EASY.... That make any sense? I don't know, maby they think tourists were being talked into marriage and regretting it later or something.

So is marriage allowed, just no note from the embassy? What stops you from bring a note from home? It seems like if the object was to reduce the number of "on-the-fly" mixed marriages they would create a residency requirement or something. I'm thinking the embassy isn't writing single notes because they have better things to do and its stupid step to require you to take, but thats just my thoughts. Obviously I don't know what its like to deal with Cairo or the US embassy there.

To tell the truth, until after I was married and home I didn't even know that embassies issued letters. When I was getting my things together for my trip and saw I needed a doc certifying my singleness, I just wrote up a simple "I swear I'm single" note on plain paper and signed it in front of the notary at my currency exchange for a dollar. It was never questioned and I never would have thought it wasn't good enough til I later saw on vj that noone else did that. Again, I wasn't in Egypt.

No, marriage is not allowed in the courthouse which is the only place that a marriage must be done in order for it to be recognized by the US. One can get married in a masjid I guess but it will not be recognized by the US so you'd still have to go the K1 route. The note from home wouldn't cut it because the problem started with the courthouse not accepting the notes from the embassy. They would issue the note but the courthouse would not accept it. Then they just stopped issuing the notes since they're pointless in Egypt now.